12-06-2011, 11:08 AM
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Timed Out
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on a hedonistic hiatus
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Permanently Banned 12/28/2011
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Originally Posted by Miss Tick
This is so true. The U.S. puts so many of its citizens in jail compared to, well actually compared to anywhere. In January 2010 the rate of incarceration was 743 adults per 100,000. Guess how many were white compared to POC. Now that the prison systems are privatized it is such a money making operation that nothing is likely to be legalized. The more jailed the better. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Whenever they declare war on inanimate objects like drugs, terrorism and poverty they are really just finding new ways to continue unchallenged and overly funded with their war on the poor. It's just their fancy way of declaring class warfare.
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well welcome to the world of for profit prisons. human bodies are needed to turn a profit.
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